Multiculturalism only leads to conflict with next to no benefits. The more I live in the West, the more I realize how idiotic it is. You can bet I’ll be telling everyone back home to stay far, far away from “diversity”. There is no such thing as a diverse society without prejudice and tribalism. We are human. China’s remaining minorities need to be assimilated into the Han collective, simple as that. Mass Han immigration into Tibet and Xinjiang should be encouraged.

Hui isn’t even a real ethnic minority. They’re indistinguishable from Hans, except they’re Muslim. They’re even more nationalistic than the average Han, not like the liberal leaning minorities of the West.

Luckily China is only about 8% minority, and a portion of those are not real minorities, plus another portion is Han-passing and Han-identifying. Let it rise any higher, and there will be ethnic problems.

“Let each one of us build bridges rather than barriers, openness rather than walls. Earlier today, the Norwegian Nobel Committee declared Liu Xiaobo the winner of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.

Outgoing leaders select incoming leaders but why the change in overall numbers. That seems inconsistent.

China’s PSC will likely become more transparent. Just like Deng Xiaoping experimented with capitalism with Chinese characteristics, so too will China’s goverment begin to experiment with democratic principles and hopefully some transparency. Otherwise investigative journalists, like Barboza from the NYT, are going to pry the PSC open like a can of sardines. It should be interesting.

Is this a joke? Aside from the gov’t itself popularising this law *very* thoroughly (Were you in China when it was passed? There were leaflets, trainings, banners, articles on outdoor community bulletin boards, &c), activists, especially protesters who communicate and organise online, are *highly* aware of the OGI, as well as other official channels available to them. How one can even attempt to link this to Ningbo is beyond me.

There is a reason Ningbo protesters gathered — such NIMBY actions work. It worked in Xiamen. It worked in Panyu District, Guangzhou. It’s easy to rally behind, and difficult for the gov’t to ignore w/o seeming heartless and lacking connections with the people.